“Some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate. The firmware can be loaded from removable media such as a USB stick or floppy. The missing firmware files are: rtl_nic/rtl8107e-2.fw”

I figured this had something to do with a nic and didn’t have the firmware so I just skipped it. The only issues I’m having so far is that my function keys on the laptop don’t work. Things like mute and volume controls aren’t usable. It’s not a huge deal but I’d like to get them to function. This is on an old Compaq POS I had laying around so I thought I would use it to learn my way around Linux. Any ideas?

I’m not the biggest Kali expert, nor Linux as a whole, but I’m pretty sure Kali isn’t necessarily designed as a ‘daily driver’ distro. I have a build of it on a USB stick for testing and such, but never really had the desire to run it every day. Maybe check out Mint, Fedora, Ubuntu or any of the more ‘standard’ distros; they’ll probably have more functionality and features built in than Kali.